Starter quiz
- How are Scrooge's lodgings described in Stave 1 of 'A Christmas Carol'?
- bare and plain ✓
- ornate and decorative
- valuable and beautiful
- bright and colourful
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- Which parable does Dickens allude to through Marley's Ghost's regret in 'A Christmas Carol'?
- The Good Samaritan
- Lazarus and the Rich Man ✓
- The Lioness and her Cubs
- The Almond Tree
- The Eagles and the Vine
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- What role does Marley's Ghost play in the novella 'A Christmas Carol'?
- Dickens' moral compass
- Scrooge's redeemer ✓
- An example of how to live your life
- A harbinger of hope ✓
- Scrooge's enemy
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- What does 'to draw parallels between' mean?
- to make connections to ✓
- to be exactly the same as
- to contrast with
- two characters whose lives run alongside one another
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- Complete the quotation from Stave 2 of 'A Christmas Carol': "Another ______ has displaced me.... a golden one."
- 'Idol' ✓
- A ______ is a short, simple story with a moral lesson, as told by Jesus in the Gospels.
- 'Parable' ✓
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